Metadata Scrubber
Removes author, device, GPS and revision metadata from documents, images, audio and video in one pass.
A photograph carries the camera, the lens and often the exact coordinates where it was taken; a Word file carries the author, the company and how long it was edited for. None of that is visible in the document, and all of it survives being e-mailed. This removes it in one pass, across documents, images, audio and video.
Drop images to scrub
JPEG, PNG and WebP. Stripped without re-encoding the pixels.
Stripped in your browser as a container edit — the compressed pixels are copied through byte-for-byte, so nothing is re-encoded and nothing is uploaded.
How to use it
Drop the files in
Several at once is fine, and mixed types are fine — each is handled by the rules for its own format.
Look at what was found before you strip
The list of fields removed is worth reading once. It is usually the only time you find out that the PDF you have been sending carries the name of the machine it was printed from.
Download the cleaned copy
The original is not modified. Check the result opens correctly before you send it, particularly for video, where a container rewrite is more invasive than an EXIF wipe.
Common questions
Does it remove everything identifying?
It removes metadata. It does not touch the content: a face in the photograph, a letterhead in the document, a name typed in the body of the text, or the pattern of sensor noise a camera leaves in every image it takes. Redaction is a different problem.
Are the files uploaded?
No. Parsing and rewriting happen in the browser, which is the only sensible arrangement for a tool whose whole job is not leaving traces of your files somewhere.
Will the image quality change?
For JPEG and PNG the pixel data is copied through untouched — only the metadata segments are dropped, so the file is byte-identical apart from those. Video and audio are remuxed, not re-encoded, for the same reason.
Feed it from
EXIF Viewer
Shows camera, lens, timestamp and GPS metadata embedded in a photo, as coordinates rather than on a map — drawing one would send the location to a tile server.
EXIF Remover
Strips camera, GPS and editing metadata from photos while leaving the pixels untouched.
Face Blur
Proposes face boxes from a skin-colour heuristic — no model, so it also finds hands and misses shaded faces — for you to confirm or draw over, then mosaics them by rewriting the pixels.
PDF Metadata Cleaner
Views and removes author, producer, creation dates, XMP blocks and embedded file attachments.
Next
These accept what this tool produces, so the result can go straight in.
Archive Inspector
Opens a zip without extracting it and flags path traversal entries, executables, macros and zip bombs.
EXIF Remover
Strips camera, GPS and editing metadata from photos while leaving the pixels untouched.
Media Metadata Editor
Reads and edits container metadata — title, artist, album art, codecs, duration and streams.
PDF Metadata Cleaner
Views and removes author, producer, creation dates, XMP blocks and embedded file attachments.
Audio Converter
Converts between MP3, WAV, FLAC, AAC, OGG and Opus with bitrate and sample-rate settings.
Extract Audio from Video
Pulls the audio track out of a video as MP3, WAV, M4A or FLAC, or copies it without re-encoding.